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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ObjectBox

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperEsgynIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MicrosoftObjectBox Limited
Initial release2015201020152017
Current releaseV14.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, JavaErlangC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, plus "flex" map-like types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIProprietary native API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing Azure authenticationyes
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